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“Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don’t comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God’s love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“Christianity’s job, in the words of George Fox, is to live in the “power, life, light, seed and wisdom, by which we may take away the occasion of wars.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“As Bill Coffin put it, “We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“Christianity’s job, in the words of George Fox, is to live in the “power, life, light, seed and wisdom, by which we may take away the occasion of wars.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don’t comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God’s love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
“If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.”
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“Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can “rest in God.”
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots
― Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots
